First, go pick up the handouts from the classroom.
Read all background information, links and instructions.
Give an honest attempt to complete the work on your own.
If you do not understand something, ask the teacher! There may be some information that you missed in the class.
Sept. 6 First day of ENG40
Used wikispace pages (look to the right of this page- there's our table of contents), as our introduction:
1. Read "Home"- purpose of wiki
2. Read "Welcome"- includes class expectations
and "Course outline"
3. Create a wiki account and join our wiki, in order to keep up with work when they are away.
Create a gmail account in order to hand work in on line.
Instruction
4. Read Writing Introduction wiki page
5. Read Writing Variables- wiki page and prezi explain what these are- VERY IMPORTANT
6. Look at several examples of "writing" (posters, labels, resume, etc.), and identify the writing variables.
7. Read Document Use- see wiki page
8. Try the Measure Up Website (link on Document Use page)- for future reference
9. Consider the document of "Advertisements"
10. Identify writing variables of several advertisements.
11. Identify what makes advertisements appealing and effective
Activity
12. Find 6 specific advertisements in the school and analyze for the 5 variables and the effectiveness of the ad. Write your answers on the handout. Hand in to be marked.
*If you were not in class for this, you need to find 6 advertisements at home. Copy and complete the following chart below and hand in.
Advertisement
Form
Audience
Purpose
Context
Central Idea
Effectiveness (rate 1-10)
Reasons for effectiveness
eg. U of M
brochure
high school students
to inform
high school
our university is best for you
3
too much technical information
no pictures
no colour
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
By the end of today you need:
a wikispace account, linked to ours
a gmail account
the above completed chart for advertisements
Sept. 7, 2012
1. Review of writing variables.
2. Review of effectiveness of advertisements.
3. Lit Power assignment- If you weren't in class, be sure to go pick up this handout: Community Advertising p. 65-68 For complete, detailed instructions, see Lit Power wiki page in the table of contents on the right of this page.
4. Demonstrations speech- look at the Oral Communication wiki page on the right of this page, to get the complete instructions. Look at some youtube examples. think of something very simple that can be demonstrated in the class. Write out the steps numbered 1, 2, 3. Turn the steps into a flowchart ("document of the day"). We will work on how to make it into a prezi next week. Check out all the links provided for the assignment, including the rubric for how you will be marked.
By the end of today you need:
Community advertising Part A, B completed and handed in
Rough copy and flow chart for your demonstration speech
Read all background information, links and instructions.
Give an honest attempt to complete the work on your own.
If you do not understand something, ask the teacher! There may be some information that you missed in the class.
Sept. 6 First day of ENG40
Used wikispace pages (look to the right of this page- there's our table of contents), as our introduction:
1. Read "Home"- purpose of wiki
2. Read "Welcome"- includes class expectations
and "Course outline"
3. Create a wiki account and join our wiki, in order to keep up with work when they are away.
Create a gmail account in order to hand work in on line.
Instruction
4. Read Writing Introduction wiki page
5. Read Writing Variables- wiki page and prezi explain what these are- VERY IMPORTANT
6. Look at several examples of "writing" (posters, labels, resume, etc.), and identify the writing variables.
7. Read Document Use- see wiki page
8. Try the Measure Up Website (link on Document Use page)- for future reference
9. Consider the document of "Advertisements"
10. Identify writing variables of several advertisements.
11. Identify what makes advertisements appealing and effective
Activity
12. Find 6 specific advertisements in the school and analyze for the 5 variables and the effectiveness of the ad. Write your answers on the handout. Hand in to be marked.
*If you were not in class for this, you need to find 6 advertisements at home. Copy and complete the following chart below and hand in.
no pictures
no colour
Sept. 7, 2012
1. Review of writing variables.
2. Review of effectiveness of advertisements.
3. Lit Power assignment- If you weren't in class, be sure to go pick up this handout:
Community Advertising p. 65-68
For complete, detailed instructions, see Lit Power wiki page in the table of contents on the right of this page.
4. Demonstrations speech- look at the Oral Communication wiki page on the right of this page, to get the complete instructions. Look at some youtube examples. think of something very simple that can be demonstrated in the class. Write out the steps numbered 1, 2, 3. Turn the steps into a flowchart ("document of the day"). We will work on how to make it into a prezi next week. Check out all the links provided for the assignment, including the rubric for how you will be marked.
By the end of today you need:
Community advertising Part A, B completed and handed in
Rough copy and flow chart for your demonstration speech